Kalanchoe. | L. CRASSULACEEH (BRITTEN). 397 
lowest few-flowered. Bracts and bracteoles short, somewhat deltoid. 
Calyx subvesicular, usually 4-fid, rarely 4-partite, but distinctly 
united nearly to the middle; umbilicate at the base, densely glandular- 
ubescent, 4 lines long; lobes erect, acute or even acuminate, deltoid. 
orolla pale yellow, scarcely or slightly exceeding } in. long, glabrous 
at the base, tube slightly pubescent, limb-segments ovate-oblong, acu- 
minate. Squamule linear, whitish. Carpels narrow-oblong, glabrous, 
attenuate. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Dillon. 
Lower Guinea. Benguela, Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
In Dr. Welwitsch’s specimens the calyx is rather more deeply divided than in the 
type, and the corolla is somewhat longer. In other respects, however, they correspond. 
17. K. scapigera, Welm. mss. Whole plant glabrous. Stem cylin- 
drical, 1 in. long, transversely rugose with the scars of the fallen leaves. 
Leaves subrosulate at the summit of the stem, very thick, ohovate, 
obtuse, subpetiolate or nearly orbicular and sessile, of a coppery-yellow 
in the living plant. Peduncles scapiform rising from the rosette of 
leaves, solitary or two together, 5—7 in. long, erect, cylindrical, with 
one or two pairs of opposite deciduous bracts, bearing one or two tri- 
chotomous cymes at the summit. Pedicels 1-3 lines long, rigid, brac- 
teoles about } line long, thick, lanceolate, almost triquetrous. Flowers 
bright yellow. Sepals very short, scarcely 1 line in length, deltoid- 
ovate, rather obtuse, thickened on the back. Corolla-tube not exceed- 
ing } in. in length, limb-segments ovate, acuminate. Squamule linear, 
1—2 lines long. Carpels 4-5 lines long, free from the corolla-tube. 
Lower Guinea. Benguela, Mossamedes, Dr. Welwitsch! : 
In inflorescence this approaches K. rotundifolia, Haw., a Cape species, but that 
usually has a leafy stem. 
18. K. humilis, Britten. Whole plant glabrous. Rhizome creeping, 
emitting barren leafy shoots. Scape slender, erect, 8-4 in. long, from 
a short leafy stock not exceeding 1 in., transversely rugose with the 
scars of the fallen leaves. Barren shoots about 1 in. long. Leaves 
spathulate, crenate at the apex, about ? in. long by } in. broad, sessile, 
or tapering into a short petiole, glaucous, fleshy. Cymes few-flowered, 
dichotomous, pedicels 2-4 lines long. Calyx-segments deltoid, scarcely 
2 line long. Corolla 2 lines long, divided for about one-third of its 
length, tubular, lobes ascending. Squamule minute. Carpels 1-1} 
lines long, free from the corolla-tube ; styles slender. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Moramballa, Waller! 
Besides the foregoing there are in the Kew Herbarium the following, apparently new 
and distinct species, represented only by imperfect specimens. 
Kalanchoe. Stems glabrous ; inflorescence thinly glandular-pubescent ; cymes dense ; 
calyx short, 4-partite. Speke and Grant, No. 387 (erroneously referred to X. glandu- 
losa, in Speke, Trav. App.). 
., Kalanchoe. Near K. glandulosa and K. brachycalyx ; differing from the former in 
(in 4-partite calyx, and from the latter in its larger flowers. Abyssinia, Schimper, 637 
1m part). 
We have also two specimens, past flowering, and without leaves, of what will pro- 
